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Unreal Engine and Unity are coming to dominate game design. For the moment, Unity remains the most used individual game engine, but Epic Games' Unreal is rapidly catching up, particularly for big ...

While a game engine is technically just a piece of software laying the framework for a videogame, it's much more than an endless string of code. A good engine is both the heart and brain that makes ...

Choosing a game engine is, in my opinion, the most important step to take while developing video games. It is where you will have access to the components and tools you need to create your world, and ...

Epic Games is attempting to entice developers by getting all of them involved in building Unreal Engine 4 itself even as they make games with it. "It takes Unreal from being perceived as the engine ...

That makes Unreal Engine 4.27 a timely release; when Oculus said it would be fully shifting to OpenXR development last month, it put XR developers in an odd spot because the two biggest game engines, ...

With so much news about Fortnite lately, it’s easier to forget that Epic Games makes the Unreal Engine. But today, the game engine behind some of the most realistic and is taking center stage as Epic ...

Unity is bringing its new in-app purchase SDK to Unreal Engine developers. Those devs will be able to handle cross-platform purchases using Unity's in-app purchase APIs. "Today we’re announcing that ...